Dissidents across China have again been muzzled in order to prevent them from drawing attention to the savage state-sanctioned violence that was inflicted on hundreds of Chinese citizens 25 years ago.

It is a great crime for any nation to silence by threat of arrest the voices of its people. Yet it is all the more grievous when the nation in question is in the midst of a complex and contentious reform process.

Not only do the Chinese Communist Party's dark Leninist impulses fuel political repression, but they undermine the party's bold economic reform agenda.